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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2009Bags?
From my inbox: "You have been selected in a rigorous search for professionals involved with financial information in securities markets, which includes researchers, regulators, operators in bags, company directors and auditors, European and Latin American countries." What are "operators in bags"? If it helps, the sender also provides this paragraph in the original language: "Usted ha sido seleccionado en una rigurosa búsqueda de profesionales vinculados con la información financiera en mercados de valores, la que incluye investigadores, reguladores, operadores en bolsas, directores de empresas y auditores, de países europeos y latinoamericanos."  SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) > From my inbox: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >incluye investigadores, reguladores, operadores en bolsas, directores de >empresas y auditores, de países europeos y latinoamericanos." Nothing to do with carpetbaggers. Spanish "bolsa", like French "bourse", means not only "purse" but also "stock exchange". James > From my inbox: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >What are "operators in bags"? I think you are being headhunted for a position as a bag man. SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida > From my inbox: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > incluye investigadores, reguladores, operadores en bolsas, directores de > empresas y auditores, de países europeos y latinoamericanos." The original text refers to "operadores en bolsas". Both Babelfish and Google Translation pick the first dictionary meaning for "bolsas", which is "bags", and one can hardly blame them. Just be glad they didn't choose "scrotum". But the context rules, and the "bolsa [de valores]" is the stock exchange. "Bolas" can be used just as "exchange" or "market" is in English: "bolsa de cereales" = "corn exchange" (BrE) or "grain exchange" (US), "bolsa de comercio" = "commodities exchange:, "bolsa de empleo" = "labor exchange" (BrE) or "employment agency" (US). > The original text refers to "operadores en bolsas". Both Babelfish and > Google Translation pick the first dictionary meaning for "bolsas", but if you give Babelfish just "bolsa" it produces only "stock market." Try translating "bag" back and it gives the masculine "bolso" instead. ¬R > From my inbox: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > What are "operators in bags"? Oxford bags, duh SignatureJohn Dean Oxford >> From my inbox: >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Oxford bags, duh "I bags the seat next to the professor," he said, unctuously. SignatureRobin (BrE) Herts, England >>> From my inbox: >>> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > "I bags the seat next to the professor," he said, unctuously. <edges away..> SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >>>> From my inbox: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > ><edges away..> But I've brought you an apple... SignatureRobin (BrE) Herts, England >>>>> From my inbox: >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >But I've brought you an apple... That's part of the problem. The professor is also a doctor. "An apple a day keeps..." SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >>>>>> From my inbox: >>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >That's part of the problem. The professor is also a doctor. "An apple a >day keeps..." And someone has worked out that an apple every six hours keeps four doctors away. "When it comes to apples, I think pippins rule," said Tom frankly. James >>>>> From my inbox: >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > But I've brought you an apple... Shouldn't that be '"I bags the seat next to the professor," he said charily?' SignatureMike Page Google me at port.ac.uk if you need to send an email. >> From my inbox: >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Oxford bags, duh Plus fours, or plus sixes. > >> From my inbox: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Plus fours, or plus sixes. No. Chinos are the nearest recognisable trouser cut to Oxford Bags for non-UK based people--although even Chinos are far lower-waisted than bags. Not perhaps as low-waisted as is today's preference here, but still much much lower waisted. Plus fours and plus sixes are short-legged breeches designed to prevent the rotting of the heavy wool and worsteds from which they were cut by outdoors types walking in long grasses which may be wet, e.g., when playing golf--check out Lannigan in the movie "The Sting". Oxford chaps didn't get to go up in the first place by being outdoors types, generally. Or maybe I'm thinking too much of the proles they've ended up having to let it. G DAEB COPYRIGHT (C) 2009 SIPSTON -- > > From my inbox: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Oxford bags, duh Why Oxford and not those at, say, Walthamstow? > -- > John Dean > Oxford G DAEB COPYRIGHT (C) 2009 SIPSTON -- > From my inbox: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >What are "operators in bags"? The tall, the ham-fisted, the pompous and the good-looking. SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk > From my inbox: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >incluye investigadores, reguladores, operadores en bolsas, directores de >empresas y auditores, de países europeos y latinoamericanos." "Operator's inboxes" is my guess. SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland |
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